Cross-National Statistics on the Causes of Death, 1966-1974 (ICPSR 7624)

Citation

United Nations. Cross-National Statistics on the Causes of Death, 1966-1974. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07624.v1

These data are a collection of demographic statistics for
the populations of 125 countries or areas throughout the world,
prepared by the Statistical Office of the United Nations. The units of
analysis are both country and data year. The primary source of data is
a set of questionnaires sent monthly and annually to national
statistical services and other appropriate government offices. Data
include statistics on approximately 50 types of causes of death for
the years 1966 through 1974 for males, females, and total
populations.

United Nations. Cross-National Statistics on the Causes of Death, 1966-1974. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07624.v1

The causes of death are classified according to
the 6th, 7th, and 8th versions of an abbreviated list of the World
Health Organization's INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF
DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSES OF DEATH. Therefore, data for causes of
death are not necessarily comparable across countries or data
years. Users should refer to Variable 5 in the Variable List for full
discussion of this problem. Users interested in comparing deaths for
countries or years that use different versions of the Abbreviated list
should consult two publications: A. Joan Klebba, and Alice
B. Dolman. COMPARABILITY OF MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR THE SEVENTH AND
EIGHTH REVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES,
UNITED STATES. Rockville, MD: United States Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Health Services and
Mental Health Administration. National Center for Health Statistics,
1975, and World Health Organization. MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL
STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSES OF
DEATH. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1967.

The
user should note that countries have data covering a variety of time
spans (the maximum span being 1965-1973), and the data have not been
padded to supply missing data codes for those years for which a
country does not have data. Thus, Egypt has data for years 1965
through 1972, while Kenya has data for only 1970. (See Appendix D in
the codebook to determine the years for which a country has data.)

It is important that any user of these data consult the United
Nations' DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK, 1976, for further explanation of the
data's limitations. Certain countries have modified reporting
procedures which are presented in both the footnotes and the technical
notes accompanying the tables in the Yearbook. There is no way to
identify these problems using only the machine-readable data.

In
order to eliminate unnecessary repetition of identifying information,
data were merged so that each record now contains all the data for a
country for one particular year. In this process, breakdowns of deaths
by ethnic group and/or urban/rural classification were omitted since
only a few countries provided such information. Each record now
contains the data for the number of deaths from each cause of death
for male, female, and total.

While the data appear to be in a
rectangular matrix, such is not the case. This occurs because
different versions of the abbreviated list are referenced in different
data years. The lack of a rectangular data matrix does little to
restrict the manageability of the dataset. See codebook for
examples.

While the data have been reformatted and documented by
ICPSR staff, there has been no attempt to verify the accuracy and
consistency of the data received from the U.N. Statistical Office.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

United Nations. Cross-National Statistics on the Causes of Death, 1966-1974. ICPSR07624-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1979. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07624.v1

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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